Most Popular Books by Russell Hoban

A magic stone helps Walter look around and find things to do.

The Little Brute Family members eat gravel for breakfast, never say "please" or "thank you" and kick, yell, punch, and shove. But one day everything changes when Baby Brute finds a "lost good feeling" wandering around in a field of daisies and brings it home. Full-color illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Francisca ha estado ahorrando para poder comprar un juego de vajilla para el té. Pero Telma la ha engañado con una ganga y ahora Francisca tiene el juego de té equivocado y nada de dinero. ¿Podrá Francisca recuperar su dinero?

Arthur Crocodile cannot seem to learn table manners until his sister brings her new girlfriend to visit.

When Kleinzeit, an advertising copywriter whose name means either ''hero'' or ''smalltime'', depending on who you ask, picks up a sheet of yellow paper in the London Underground, he doesn''t suspect that it will cause him to be fired from his job and admitted to hospital with geometrical pain in his hypotenuse. In Hospital Ward A4, Kleinzeit discovers he is not alone: his fellow patients also suffer from nonsensical but possibly deadly ailments which all have something strange in common. With the help of the beautiful night nurse and armed with a glockenspiel and a paperback of Thucydides, Kleinzeit escapes from hospital and finds himself plunged headlong into a wild and flickering netherworld of mystery involving the Underground, an enigmatic red-bearded man, a key, sheets of yellow paper, and Death himself ... A hilarious, surreal and completely unpredictable novel about one man''s search for reality, "Kleinzeit" (1974) is one of Russell Hoban''s best-loved works. ''Hoban is as funny and unusual as any writer around ... "Kleinzeit" is a sort of holy fool, a fierce, lonely intelligence desperately trying to make sense of a hopeless world. A tour de force.'' - "Evening Standard" ''Hoban is an extraordinarily talented novelist, an original mind in the era of mass-produced philosophers.'' - "Irish Times" ''Delightful ... "Kleinzeit"''s language is forever astonishing.'' - "Boston Globe"

Jim Hedgehog, who likes heavy metal music, buys a cassette tape and a musical instrument from Mr. Strange, which lead him to a haunted castle.

La manecilla larga del reloj senala las 12 y la pequena las 7. Es la hora de acostarse de Francisca. Pero antes tiene que beber un vaso de leche y recibir un beso de papa y otro de mama.

Discovering that his soon-to-be-born first offspring, a soonchild, cannot hear the World Songs from her mother''s womb, Sixteen-Face John, an Arctic Circle shaman, embarks on a fantastical journey to different eras and in the forms of animals and demons to find the songs that will inspire the soonchild''s birth.

"A hero with Huck Finn''s heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy. . . . Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and—this matters most—intensely ponderable." —Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review "This is what literature is meant to be." —Anthony Burgess "Russell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and style. . . . The conviction and consistency are total. Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece." —Anthony Thwaite, Observer "Extraordinary . . . Suffused with melancholy and wonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel that people will be reading for a long, long time." —Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid." —John Leonard, The New York Times "Highly enjoyable . . . An intriguing plot . . . Ferociously inventive." —Walter Clemons, Newsweek "Astounding . . . Hoban''s soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realized work of genius." —Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan "An imaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.'' —Paul Gray, Time Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state—and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture—rebel, change agent, and artist. Read again or for the first time this masterpiece of 20th-century literature with new material by the author.

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SUMMARY: A mouse eats a marzipan pig left behind the sofa, and eats the pig''s feelings of loneliness as well. The mouse is eaten by an owl, who also eats the mouse''s strange emotions, and so the chain of events continues.

John''s obsession with drawing monsters takes him to a doctor, where a startling discovery is made about the degree of reality of John''s drawings.